JP6324014B2 - Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a monitoring device, a monitoring system, a monitoring method, and a program for monitoring equipment and transmitting information related to the equipment to a terminal device.

  Currently, monitoring systems for monitoring equipment such as air conditioners and televisions are known. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a remote monitoring system in which an air conditioning equipment monitoring server receives failure data from a monitoring device that monitors multi-type air conditioning equipment and generates repair progress information related to the failure data. .

  In the remote monitoring system disclosed in Patent Document 1, the user logs in to the air conditioner monitoring server using the user terminal and changes the repair progress information. That is, in the remote monitoring system disclosed in Patent Document 1, the user terminal acquires information stored in the air conditioning equipment monitoring server from the air conditioning equipment monitoring server.

JP 2009-129054 A

  Here, there is a demand for acquiring information stored in the monitoring device in addition to the information stored in the air conditioner monitoring server from the user terminal. However, the remote monitoring system disclosed in Patent Document 1 cannot acquire information stored in the monitoring device from the user terminal. For this reason, the technique which can acquire easily the information stored in the monitoring apparatus and the information stored in the monitoring server from a terminal device is desired.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is a monitoring device suitable for easily acquiring information stored in a monitoring device and information stored in a monitoring server from a terminal device. It is an object to provide a system, a monitoring method, and a program.

In order to achieve the above object, a monitoring device according to the present invention includes:
Equipment information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the equipment by monitoring the equipment;
Of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, device storage information storage means for storing information to be stored by the monitoring device;
Of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, server storage information transmission means for transmitting information to be stored by the monitoring server connected to the monitoring device to the monitoring server;
A transmission request receiving means for receiving a transmission request for specific information of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means from the terminal device;
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is information to be stored by the monitoring device, the specific information is acquired from the device storage information storage unit Specific information acquisition means to
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving means is information to be stored by the monitoring server, the transmission request for the specific information is transmitted to the monitoring server. A transmission request transmission means to perform,
Specific information receiving means for receiving the specific information transmitted from the monitoring server in response to the transmission request by the transmission request transmitting means, from the monitoring server;
Specific information acquired by the specific information acquiring means, or specific information transmitted by the specific information receiving means, specific information transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal device;
A device specifying information storage unit for storing information for specifying a device for storing the information acquired by the device information acquiring unit;
Based on the information stored in the device specifying information storage unit, the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is the monitoring device and the monitoring server. a device information determination means for determining whether the information to be stored by any of Ru with a.

  According to the present invention, when the monitoring device requests information stored in the monitoring server from the terminal device, the monitoring device acquires the requested information from the monitoring server. Therefore, according to the present invention, the information stored in the monitoring device and the information stored in the monitoring server can be easily acquired from the terminal device.

It is a block diagram of the monitoring system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of the monitoring apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of the monitoring server which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the function of the monitoring apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows apparatus specific information. It is a figure which shows present state information. It is a figure which shows abnormality log information. It is a figure which shows electric power history information. It is a sequence diagram which shows the flow of a process at the time of acquisition of apparatus information. It is a sequence diagram which shows the flow of a process at the time of transmission of apparatus information. It is a flowchart which shows the equipment monitoring process which the monitoring apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention performs.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  First, the monitoring system 1000 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the monitoring system 1000 includes a monitoring device 100, a monitoring device 120, a monitoring server 200, a monitoring server 210, a terminal device 300, a terminal device 310, a terminal device 320, and a facility device 400. And the equipment device 410, the equipment device 420, and the telecommunications network 500.

  The monitoring system 1000 is a system that monitors equipment installed in a factory or office for each property. Here, it is assumed that one property includes one monitoring device and one or more equipment. FIG. 1 illustrates a property 1 including a monitoring device 100, a terminal device 300, and a facility device 400, and a property 2 including a monitoring device 120, a terminal device 310, a facility device 410, and a facility device 420. An example is shown in which two properties are monitored. One property can be considered as a minimum unit for performing maintenance work.

  The monitoring device 100 monitors the equipment 400 included in the property 1 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an instruction from the terminal device 300, an automatic program, and the like. For example, the monitoring apparatus 100 monitors the equipment 400 based on information (hereinafter referred to as “apparatus information”) related to the equipment 400 acquired from the equipment 400. The device information is used, for example, when the user performs maintenance work.

  The monitoring apparatus 100 stores information that should be stored among the acquired device information (hereinafter, referred to as “apparatus storage information” as appropriate). In addition, the monitoring apparatus 100 causes the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 to store information that the server should store among the acquired device information (hereinafter, referred to as “server storage information” as appropriate). More specifically, the monitoring apparatus 100 causes the monitoring server 200 to store abnormality history information among the server storage information, and causes the monitoring server 210 to store power history information among the server storage information. In addition, the monitoring device 100 transmits the acquired device information to the terminal device 300 in accordance with a transmission request from the terminal device 300. The monitoring device 100 may have a function of controlling the equipment device 400 in addition to the function of monitoring the equipment device 400.

  The monitoring device 120 monitors the equipment 410 and the equipment 420 included in the property 2 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an instruction from the terminal device 310, an automatic program, and the like. For example, the monitoring device 120 monitors the facility device 410 and the facility device 420 based on the device information acquired from each of the facility device 410 and the facility device 420. The monitoring device 120 stores device storage information among the acquired device information. In addition, the monitoring device 120 causes the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 to store server storage information among the acquired device information. More specifically, the monitoring device 120 causes the monitoring server 200 to store the abnormality history information among the server storage information, and causes the monitoring server 210 to store the power history information among the server storage information. In addition, the monitoring device 120 transmits the acquired device information to the terminal device 310 in accordance with a transmission request from the terminal device 310. The monitoring device 120 may have a function of controlling the equipment device 410 and the equipment device 420 in addition to the function of monitoring the equipment device 410 and the equipment device 420.

  The monitoring server 200 monitors the property 1 and the property 2 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an instruction from the terminal device 320, an automatic program, and the like. For example, the monitoring server 200 monitors the property 1 and the property 2 based on the abnormality history information received from each of the monitoring device 100 and the monitoring device 120. The monitoring server 200 stores the received abnormality history information. Further, the monitoring server 200 transmits the stored abnormality history information to the monitoring device 100 or the monitoring device 120 in accordance with a transmission request from the monitoring device 100 or the monitoring device 120. The monitoring server 200 is a server that stores abnormality history information used when, for example, the property 1 and the property 2 are maintained.

  The monitoring server 210 monitors the property 1 and the property 2 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an instruction from the terminal device 320, an automatic program, and the like. For example, the monitoring server 210 monitors the property 1 and the property 2 based on the power history information received from each of the monitoring device 100 and the monitoring device 120. The monitoring server 210 stores the received power history information. In addition, the monitoring server 210 transmits stored power history information to the monitoring device 100 or the monitoring device 120 in accordance with a transmission request from the monitoring device 100 or the monitoring device 120. The monitoring server 210 is a server that stores, for example, power history information used when energy management of the property 1 and the property 2 is performed.

  The terminal device 300 has a function as an interface of the monitoring device 100. The terminal device 300 transmits a device information transmission request for the facility device 400 to the monitoring device 100 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an automatic program, or the like. Then, the terminal device 300 receives the device information of the facility device 400 from the monitoring device 100. The user of the terminal device 300 is, for example, an administrator who manages the property 1 or a resident who lives in the property 1. The terminal device 300 is, for example, a smartphone, a mobile phone, or a tablet terminal.

  The terminal device 310 has a function as an interface of the monitoring device 120. The terminal device 310 transmits a transmission request for the device information of the facility device 410 or the facility device 420 to the monitoring device 120 in accordance with a user instruction, an automatic program, or the like. Then, the terminal device 310 receives device information of the facility device 410 and the facility device 420 from the monitoring device 120. The user of the terminal device 310 is, for example, an administrator who manages the property 2 or a resident who lives in the property 2. The terminal device 310 is, for example, a smartphone, a mobile phone, or a tablet terminal.

  The terminal device 320 has a function as an interface with the monitoring device 100 and the monitoring device 120. The terminal device 320 transmits a device information transmission request for the facility device 400 to the monitoring device 100 in accordance with an instruction from the user, an automatic program, and the like, and transmits a device information transmission request for the facility device 410 or the facility device 420 to the monitoring device 120. Send. Then, the terminal device 320 receives the device information of the facility device 400 from the monitoring device 100, and receives the device information of the facility device 410 and the facility device 420 from the monitoring device 120. The user of the terminal device 320 is, for example, an administrator or a service person who manages the property 1 and the property 2. The terminal device 320 is, for example, a smartphone, a mobile phone, or a tablet terminal.

  Each of the facility devices 400, 410, and 420 is a device to be monitored and controlled, and is disposed in a factory or an office, for example. The facility device 400 transmits device information to the monitoring device 100 in accordance with an instruction from the monitoring device 100, an automatic program, or the like. Each of the equipment devices 410 and 420 transmits device information to the monitoring device 120 in accordance with an instruction from the monitoring device 120, an automatic program, or the like. Each of the equipment 400, 410, and 420 is, for example, an air conditioner, a water heater, an electric stove, a rice cooker, a lighting device, and an electric carpet. In the present embodiment, each of the facility devices 400, 410, and 420 will be described as an air conditioner.

  The telecommunication network 500 is a wide area network such as the Internet or a telephone line network. The telecommunication network 500 connects the monitoring device 100, the monitoring device 120, the monitoring server 200, the monitoring server 210, and the terminal device 320 to each other. For ease of understanding, illustration of routers, gateways, and the like is omitted in FIG.

  Next, the physical configuration of the monitoring apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the monitoring device 100 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13, a flash memory 14, an RTC (Real Time Clock) 15, and a touch screen. 16, a telecommunication network interface 17, a terminal device interface 18, and an equipment interface 19 are provided. Each component provided in the monitoring apparatus 100 is connected to each other via a bus.

  The CPU 11 controls the overall operation of the monitoring device 100. The CPU 11 operates according to a program stored in the ROM 12 and uses the RAM 13 as a work area.

  The ROM 12 stores a program and data for controlling the overall operation of the monitoring device 100.

  The RAM 13 functions as a work area for the CPU 11. That is, the CPU 11 temporarily writes programs and data in the RAM 13 and refers to these programs and data as appropriate.

  The flash memory 14 is a nonvolatile memory that stores various types of information. For example, the flash memory 14 stores device storage information. Note that the monitoring device 100 may include a hard disk or the like instead of the flash memory 14.

  The RTC 15 is a time measuring device. The RTC 15 includes, for example, a battery and keeps timing while the power of the monitoring device 100 is off. The RTC 15 includes an oscillation circuit including a crystal oscillator, for example.

  The touch screen 16 detects a touch operation performed by the user and supplies a signal indicating the detection result to the CPU 11. The touch screen 16 displays an image based on the image signal supplied from the CPU 11 or the like. As described above, the touch screen 16 functions as a user interface of the monitoring device 100.

  The telecommunications network interface 17 connects the monitoring device 100 to the telecommunications network 500 by an Internet protocol or the like. The telecommunication network interface 17 communicates with the monitoring device 120, the monitoring server 200, the monitoring server 210, the terminal device 320, and the like according to control by the CPU 11. The telecommunication network interface 17 includes a LAN interface such as a NIC (Network Interface Card).

  The terminal device interface 18 communicates with the terminal device 300 by ad hoc communication or network communication. The terminal device interface 18 may be an interface for serial communication such as USB (Universal Serial Bus) or IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 1394, or may be a LAN interface such as NIC.

  The equipment interface 19 communicates with the terminal device 300 by ad hoc communication or network communication. The facility device interface 19 may be an interface for serial communication such as USB or IEEE1394, or may be a LAN interface such as NIC.

  Next, the physical configuration of the monitoring server 200 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the monitoring server 200 includes a CPU 21, a ROM 22, a RAM 23, a hard disk 24, an RTC 25, a touch screen 26, and a telecommunication network interface 27. Each component provided in the monitoring server 200 is connected to each other via a bus.

  The CPU 21 controls the overall operation of the monitoring server 200. The CPU 21 operates in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 22 and uses the RAM 23 as a work area.

  The ROM 22 stores programs and data for controlling the overall operation of the monitoring server 200.

  The RAM 23 functions as a work area for the CPU 21. That is, the CPU 21 temporarily writes programs and data in the RAM 23 and refers to these programs and data as appropriate.

  The hard disk 24 is a storage device that stores various types of information. The hard disk 24 stores, for example, abnormality history information. Note that the monitoring server 200 may include a flash memory or the like instead of the hard disk 24.

  The RTC 25 is a time measuring device. The RTC 25 includes, for example, a battery and keeps timing even while the monitoring server 200 is powered off. The RTC 25 includes an oscillation circuit including a crystal oscillator, for example.

  The touch screen 26 detects a touch operation performed by the user, and supplies a signal indicating the detection result to the CPU 21. The touch screen 26 displays an image based on the image signal supplied from the CPU 21 or the like. As described above, the touch screen 26 functions as a user interface of the monitoring server 200.

  The telecommunication network interface 27 connects the monitoring server 200 to the telecommunication network 500 using the Internet protocol. The telecommunication network interface 27 communicates with the monitoring device 100, the monitoring device 120, the monitoring server 210, the terminal device 320, and the like according to control by the CPU 21. The telecommunication network interface 27 includes a LAN interface such as a NIC, for example.

  Note that the physical configuration of the monitoring device 120 is basically the same as the physical configuration of the monitoring device 100. The physical configuration of the monitoring server 210 is basically the same as the physical configuration of the monitoring server 200. Furthermore, each of the terminal device 300, the terminal device 310, the terminal device 320, the equipment device 400, the equipment device 410, and the equipment device 420 is similar to the monitoring device 100 and the monitoring server 200, and includes a control device (CPU, ROM, RAM), A storage device (flash memory), a timing device (RTC), an input / output device (touch screen), a communication device (telecommunications network interface), and the like are provided, but detailed description thereof is omitted.

  Next, basic functions of the monitoring apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG. Functionally, the monitoring device 100 includes a device information acquisition unit 101, a device storage information storage unit 102, a server storage information transmission unit 103, a transmission request reception unit 104, a specific information acquisition unit 105, a transmission request transmission unit 106, and specific information. A receiving unit 107, a specific information transmitting unit 108, a device specific information storage unit 109, and a device information determining unit 110 are provided.

  The device information acquisition unit 101 acquires information (device information) related to the facility device 400 by monitoring the facility device 400. The device information acquisition unit 101 includes, for example, a CPU 11 and a facility device interface 19.

  The device storage information storage unit 102 stores information (device storage information) to be stored by the monitoring device 100 among information (device information) acquired by the device information acquisition unit 101. The device storage information storage unit 102 includes, for example, a CPU 11 and a flash memory 14.

  The server storage information transmission unit 103 includes information (server storage information) to be stored by the monitoring servers 200 and 210 connected to the monitoring device 100 among the information (device information) acquired by the device information acquisition unit 101. It transmits to the monitoring servers 200 and 210. The server storage information transmission unit 103 includes, for example, a CPU 11 and a telecommunication network interface 17.

  The transmission request receiving unit 104 receives a transmission request for specific information (hereinafter, referred to as “specific information” as appropriate) of the information (device information) acquired by the device information acquisition unit 101 from the terminal device 300. The transmission request receiving unit 104 includes, for example, the terminal device interface 18.

  The specific information acquisition unit 105 is information (device storage information) that should be stored by the monitoring device 100 in which specific information (specific information) requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request reception unit 104 is stored. If there is, specific information (specific information) is acquired from the device storage information storage unit 102. The specific information acquisition unit 105 includes, for example, a CPU 11.

  The transmission request transmission unit 106 includes information (server storage information) that the specific information (specific information) requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request reception unit 104 should be stored by the monitoring servers 200 and 210. ), A transmission request for specific information (specific information) is transmitted to the monitoring servers 200 and 210.

  The specific information receiving unit 107 receives specific information (specific information) transmitted from the monitoring servers 200 and 210 in response to the transmission request from the transmission request transmitting unit 106 from the monitoring servers 200 and 210. The specific information receiving unit 107 includes, for example, a telecommunications network interface 17.

  The specific information transmitting unit 108 transmits the specific information (specific information) acquired by the specific information acquiring unit 105 or the specific information (specific information) received by the specific information receiving unit 107 to the terminal device 300. . The specific information transmission unit 108 includes, for example, a CPU 11 and a terminal device interface 18.

  The device specifying information storage unit 109 stores information for specifying a device that stores the information (device information) acquired by the device information acquiring unit 101 (hereinafter referred to as “device specifying information” as appropriate). The device identification information storage unit 109 includes, for example, a flash memory 14.

  The device information determination unit 110 uses the information (device information) acquired by the device information acquisition unit 101 based on the information (device specification information) stored in the device specification information storage unit 109 and the transmission request reception unit 104. Each of the specific information (specific information) requested to be transmitted by the received transmission request is information to be stored by any of the monitoring device 100, the monitoring server 200, and the monitoring server 210. Is determined. The device information determination unit 110 includes, for example, a CPU 11.

  Next, the device specifying information will be described with reference to FIG. The device specifying information is information that associates device information with a device that stores the device information (hereinafter, referred to as “storage device” as appropriate). That is, the device identification information is information indicating the data arrangement of device information in the monitoring system 1000.

  FIG. 5 shows device specifying information indicating a device information storage device of the facility device 400. In the device specifying information shown in FIG. 5, information indicating the operation state of the facility device 400 and information indicating the operation mode of the facility device 400 are stored in the monitoring device 100, and information indicating an abnormality history of the facility device 400 is stored in the monitoring server 200. The information indicating the power history of the facility device 400 is stored in the monitoring server 210. The storage device can be represented by a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or the like.

  Of the device information of the facility device 400, information stored by the monitoring device 100 is device storage information, and information stored by the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 is server storage information. The device specifying information indicating the device that stores the device information of the facility device 400 is stored in the flash memory 14 included in the monitoring device 100. On the other hand, device specifying information indicating a device that stores the device information of the facility device 410 and device specifying information indicating a device that stores the device information of the facility device 420 are stored in the flash memory 14 included in the monitoring device 120.

  The hard disk 24 provided in each of the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 includes device specifying information indicating a device that stores device information of the facility device 400 and device specifying information indicating a device that stores the device information of the facility device 410. Information and device specifying information indicating a device that stores the device information of the facility device 420 are stored. Accordingly, each of the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 stores in which device all the device information of all the facility devices (facility devices 400, 410, 420) existing in the monitoring system 1000 is stored. Can be grasped.

  In addition, the device identification information is appropriately changed by a user or the like as the system configuration of the monitoring system 1000 is changed. The user can change the device specifying information using, for example, the terminal devices 300, 310, and 320. The device specifying information held by the monitoring device 100, the device specifying information held by the monitoring device 120, the device specifying information held by the monitoring server 200, and the device specifying information held by the monitoring server 210 are all contradictory. In order to avoid this, it is updated synchronously as appropriate.

  Next, the current state information will be described with reference to FIG. The current state information is information indicating the current state of the driving state and the driving mode. FIG. 6 shows current state information regarding the equipment 400. The current state information illustrated in FIG. 6 indicates that the operation state of the facility device 400 is in operation and the operation mode of the facility device 400 is cooling. In this way, information that can be operated by the remote controller of the equipment device 400 can be used as current state information.

  Information that is frequently updated, such as current status information, is preferably device storage information so that the processing load and communication amount for communication do not increase. Therefore, the current state information related to the facility device 400 is stored in the flash memory 14 included in the monitoring device 100. Further, current state information related to the equipment device 410 and current state information related to the equipment device 420 are stored in the flash memory 14 included in the monitoring device 120.

  Next, the abnormality history information will be described with reference to FIG. The abnormality history information is information indicating an abnormality occurrence history. FIG. 7 shows abnormality history information related to the equipment device 400. The abnormality history information is information for associating, for example, facility equipment in which an abnormality has occurred, an occurrence time at which the abnormality has occurred, and a failure number with each other.

  Information that is important for monitoring purposes, such as abnormality history information, is preferably server storage information. Therefore, abnormality history information related to the facility device 400 is stored in the hard disk 24 provided in the monitoring server 200. In addition, abnormality history information related to the equipment device 410 and abnormality history information related to the equipment device 420 are also stored in the hard disk 24 included in the monitoring server 200.

  Next, the power history information will be described with reference to FIG. The power history information is information indicating a history of consumed power. FIG. 8 shows power history information regarding the equipment 400. The power history information is, for example, information that associates facility equipment that consumes power, time when power is measured, and power (W) with each other. FIG. 8 shows power history information when the power consumed by the facility device 400 is measured every 30 minutes.

  Information that is important for the purpose of monitoring, such as power history information, is preferably server storage information. Therefore, the power history information related to the facility device 400 is stored in the hard disk 24 provided in the monitoring server 210. Further, the power history information related to the equipment device 410 and the power history information related to the equipment device 420 are also stored in the hard disk 24 provided in the monitoring server 210.

  As described above, the device storage information is typically information that is preferably stored by the monitoring device 100 rather than the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 among the device information. On the other hand, the server storage information is typically information that is preferably stored by the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 rather than the monitoring device 100 among the device information. For example, the device storage information is information that does not leave a history, and is information that changes every moment or special information. Further, for example, the server management information is important information for which a history should be recorded, and is general-purpose information or information with a large data amount.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 9, the flow of processing when acquiring device information will be described. Hereinafter, an example in which the monitoring apparatus 100 acquires device information of the facility device 400 will be described.

  First, when the operating state of the equipment device 400 changes, the equipment device 400 notifies the monitoring apparatus 100 that the operating state has changed (ST101). On the other hand, when the monitoring apparatus 100 receives a notification from the facility device 400 that the operating state has changed, the monitoring apparatus 100 updates the current state information based on the notification. Specifically, the monitoring device 100 indicates the current state information so that the current state of the operating state of the facility device 400 indicated by the current state information stored in the flash memory 14 becomes the state indicated by the notification. Rewrite.

  Moreover, when the operation mode of the equipment device 400 is changed, the equipment device 400 notifies the monitoring apparatus 100 that the operation mode has been changed (ST102). On the other hand, when the monitoring device 100 receives a notification from the facility device 400 that the operation mode has changed, the monitoring device 100 updates the current state information based on the notification. Specifically, the monitoring device 100 indicates the current state information so that the current state of the operation mode of the facility device 400 indicated by the current state information stored in the flash memory 14 becomes the state indicated by the notification. Rewrite.

  Here, when an abnormality occurs in the facility device 400, the facility device 400 notifies the monitoring device 100 that an abnormality has occurred (ST103). On the other hand, when monitoring device 100 receives a notification that an abnormality has occurred from facility device 400, monitoring device 100 notifies monitoring server 200 that an abnormality has occurred in facility device 400 (ST104). When receiving a notification from the monitoring apparatus 100 that an abnormality has occurred in the facility device 400, the monitoring server 200 updates the abnormality history information based on this notification. Specifically, the monitoring server 200 rewrites the abnormality history information so that the abnormality history of the equipment device 400 indicated by the abnormality history information stored in the hard disk 24 includes the abnormality history indicated by the notification.

  When the monitoring apparatus 100 detects that the power measurement time has arrived, the monitoring apparatus 100 requests the facility device 400 to transmit information indicating the consumed power (hereinafter referred to as “power information” as appropriate). (ST105). On the other hand, in response to receiving the request for transmitting the power information, the facility device 400 transmits the power information to the monitoring apparatus 100 (ST106). When monitoring apparatus 100 receives power information from facility device 400, monitoring apparatus 100 transmits the received power information to monitoring server 210 (ST107). On the other hand, when receiving the power information from the monitoring device 100, the monitoring server 210 updates the power history information based on the received power information. Specifically, the monitoring server 210 rewrites the power history information so that the power history of the facility device 400 indicated by the power history information stored in the hard disk 24 includes the received power information.

  The monitoring device 100 can determine which device stores the information to be updated by referring to the device specifying information stored in the flash memory 14.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 10, the flow of processing when transmitting device information will be described. Hereinafter, an example in which the monitoring device 100 transmits device information of the facility device 400 to the terminal device 300 will be described.

  First, when receiving an instruction to acquire current state information from a user or the like, the terminal device 300 requests the monitoring device 100 to transmit current state information (ST201). On the other hand, when receiving a request for transmitting current state information from terminal device 300, monitoring device 100 transmits the current state information stored in flash memory 14 to terminal device 300 (ST202).

  Further, when receiving an abnormality history information acquisition instruction from a user or the like, the terminal device 300 requests the monitoring device 100 to transmit the abnormality history information (ST203). On the other hand, when monitoring apparatus 100 receives a request for transmitting abnormality history information from terminal apparatus 300, monitoring apparatus 100 requests monitoring server 200 to transmit abnormality history information (ST204). Here, when the monitoring server 200 receives a request for transmitting the abnormality history information from the monitoring apparatus 100, the monitoring server 200 transmits the abnormality history information stored in the hard disk 24 to the monitoring apparatus 100 (ST205). On the other hand, when monitoring device 100 receives abnormality history information from monitoring server 200, monitoring device 100 transmits the received abnormality history information to terminal device 300 (ST206).

  When receiving an instruction to acquire power history information from a user or the like, terminal apparatus 300 requests monitoring apparatus 100 to transmit power history information (ST207). On the other hand, when monitoring device 100 receives a request to transmit power history information from terminal device 300, monitoring device 100 requests monitoring server 210 to transmit power history information (ST208). Here, when monitoring server 210 receives a request to transmit power history information from monitoring device 100, monitoring server 210 transmits power history information stored in hard disk 24 to monitoring device 100 (ST209). On the other hand, when receiving the power history information from monitoring server 210, monitoring device 100 transmits the received power history information to terminal device 300 (ST210).

  The monitoring device 100 can determine which device stores the information instructed to acquire by referring to the device specifying information stored in the flash memory 14.

  Next, facility equipment monitoring processing executed by the monitoring apparatus 100 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Note that the monitoring apparatus 100 starts the equipment monitoring process shown in FIG. 11 in response to the power being turned on.

  First, the CPU 11 determines whether device information has been received from the facility device 400 (step S101). For example, the CPU 11 can determine whether the equipment information is received by the equipment interface 19 by monitoring the equipment interface 19.

  When determining that the device information is received from the facility device 400 (step S101: YES), the CPU 11 determines whether the device information is device storage information (step S102). For example, the CPU 11 can determine whether or not the device information is device storage information by referring to the device specifying information stored in the flash memory 14.

  When the CPU 11 determines that the device information is device storage information (step S102: YES), the CPU 11 stores the device information in the internal storage device (step S103). Specifically, the CPU 11 stores device information in the flash memory 14.

  On the other hand, when determining that the device information is not device storage information (step S102: NO), the CPU 11 transmits the device information to the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 (step S104). Specifically, for example, the CPU 11 can transmit the device information to the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 by controlling the telecommunication network interface 17. On the other hand, the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 stores the received device information (server storage information) in the hard disk 24 or the like. Note that the CPU 11 can determine which of the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 is to transmit the device information by referring to the device specifying information stored in the flash memory 14.

  When it is determined that the device information has not been received from the facility device 400 (step S101: NO), the CPU 11 has received the specific information transmission request from the terminal device 300 when the processing of step S103 or step S104 is completed. It is determined whether or not (step S105). For example, the CPU 11 can determine whether or not a transmission request for specific information has been received by the terminal device interface 18 by monitoring the terminal device interface 18. The specific information is any information of the device information, for example, any information of current state information, abnormality history information, and power history information.

  When determining that the transmission request for specific information is received from the terminal device 300 (step S105: YES), the CPU 11 determines whether the specific information is device storage information (step S106). The CPU 11 can determine whether the specific information is the device storage information or the server storage information by referring to the device specification information stored in the flash memory 14.

  When the CPU 11 determines that the specific information is device storage information (step S106: YES), the CPU 11 reads the specific information from the internal storage device (step S107). Specifically, the CPU 11 reads specific information from the flash memory 14.

  On the other hand, when determining that the specific information is not device storage information (step S106: NO), the CPU 11 transmits a transmission request for specific information to the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 (step S108). Specifically, the CPU 11 can transmit a transmission request for specific information to the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 by controlling the telecommunication network interface 17. Note that the CPU 11 can determine which of the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 is to transmit the transmission request for the specific information by referring to the device identification information stored in the flash memory 14. it can.

  On the other hand, the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 that has received the transmission request for specific information reads the specific information requested to be transmitted from the hard disk 24 and transmits it to the monitoring device 100. The specific information transmitted by the monitoring server 200 is abnormality history information, and the specific information transmitted by the monitoring server 210 is power history information.

  When completing the process of step S108, the CPU 11 receives specific information from the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 (step S109). The CPU 11 can detect that the specific information has been received by the telecommunication network interface 17 by monitoring the telecommunication network interface 17.

  CPU11 will transmit specific information to the terminal device 300, if the process of step S107 or step S109 is completed (step S110). For example, the CPU 11 controls the terminal device interface 18 to transmit the current state information read from the flash memory 14 to the terminal device 300. Alternatively, the CPU 11 controls the terminal device interface 18 to transmit the abnormality history information received from the monitoring server 200 by the telecommunications network interface 17 to the terminal device 300. Alternatively, the CPU 11 controls the terminal device interface 18 to transmit the power history information received by the telecommunication network interface 17 from the monitoring server 210 to the terminal device 300.

  If the CPU 11 determines that the specific information transmission request has not been received from the terminal device 300 (step S105: NO), or if the process of step S110 is completed, the process returns to step S101.

  According to the present embodiment, the terminal device 300 acquires both the device storage information stored by the monitoring device 100 and the server storage information stored by the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 from the monitoring device 100. can do. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the terminal device 300 can acquire device information stored in different devices only by accessing the monitoring device 100 centrally. That is, the terminal device 300 or the user of the terminal device 300 can access the device information without being aware of the arrangement of the device information. Further, the terminal apparatus 300 only needs to include a communication unit for accessing the monitoring apparatus 100.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, the monitoring device 100 refers to the device identification information, and the device that is to store the device information acquired from the facility device 400 and the device that is requested to be transmitted to the terminal device 300. It is possible to grasp the device in which information is stored.

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As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, when implementing this invention, a deformation | transformation and application with a various form are possible.

  In the present invention, which part of the configuration, function, and operation described in the above embodiment is adopted is arbitrary. Further, in the present invention, in addition to the configuration, function, and operation described above, further configuration, function, and operation may be employed.

  In the present invention, the number and arrangement of the property, the monitoring device, the monitoring server, the terminal device, the equipment and the like included in the monitoring system are not limited to the example shown in FIG. For example, the number of properties may be one, or may be three or more. In addition, the number of monitoring devices, monitoring servers, terminal devices, and equipment provided in one property is arbitrary.

  In the above-described embodiment, an example in which the device that accesses the monitoring device 100 to acquire the device information of the facility device 400 is the terminal device 300 has been described. In the present invention, the device that accesses the monitoring device 100 in order to acquire the device information of the facility device 400 may be, for example, the terminal device 320.

  Further, the terminal device 320 may access the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210 in order to acquire device information of the facility device 400. In this case, for example, the device specifying information that can specify the device that stores the specific information requested to be transmitted from the terminal device 320 is stored in the hard disk 24 provided in the monitoring server 200 or the monitoring server 210. . Thereby, the monitoring server 200 and the monitoring server 210 can specify the device that stores the specific information based on the device specifying information, and can acquire the specific information from the specified device.

  By applying an operation program defining the operation of the monitoring device 100 according to the present invention to an existing personal computer or information terminal device, the personal computer or the like can also function as the monitoring device 100 according to the present invention.

  Further, the distribution method of such a program is arbitrary. For example, the program can be read by a computer such as a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read-Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), an MO (Magneto Optical Disk), or a memory card. It may be distributed by storing in a recording medium, or distributed via a communication network such as the Internet.

  Various embodiments and modifications can be made to the present invention without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the present invention. Further, the above-described embodiment is for explaining the present invention, and does not limit the scope of the present invention. That is, the scope of the present invention is shown not by the embodiments but by the claims. Various modifications within the scope of the claims and within the scope of the equivalent invention are considered to be within the scope of the present invention.

  The present invention is applicable to a monitoring system that includes a monitoring device that monitors equipment and a monitoring server that is connected to the monitoring device.

11, 21 CPU, 12, 22 ROM, 13, 23 RAM, 14 Flash memory, 15, 25 RTC, 16, 26 Touch screen, 17, 27 Telecommunication network interface, 18 Terminal device interface, 19 Equipment interface, 24 Hard disk , 100, 120 Monitoring device, 101 Device information acquisition unit, 102 Device storage information storage unit, 103 Server storage information transmission unit, 104 Transmission request reception unit, 105 Specific information acquisition unit, 106 Transmission request transmission unit, 107 Specific information reception unit , 108 specific information transmission unit, 109 device specific information storage unit, 110 device information determination unit, 200, 210 monitoring server, 300, 310, 320 terminal device, 400, 410, 420 equipment, 500 telecommunications network, 1000 monitoring system

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Equipment information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the equipment by monitoring the equipment;
Of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, device storage information storage means for storing information to be stored by the monitoring device;
Of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, server storage information transmission means for transmitting information to be stored by the monitoring server connected to the monitoring device to the monitoring server;
A transmission request receiving means for receiving a transmission request for specific information of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means from the terminal device;
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is information to be stored by the monitoring device, the specific information is acquired from the device storage information storage unit Specific information acquisition means to
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving means is information to be stored by the monitoring server, the transmission request for the specific information is transmitted to the monitoring server. A transmission request transmission means to perform,
Specific information receiving means for receiving the specific information transmitted from the monitoring server in response to the transmission request by the transmission request transmitting means, from the monitoring server;
Specific information acquired by the specific information acquiring means, or specific information transmitted by the specific information receiving means, specific information transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal device;
A device specifying information storage unit for storing information for specifying a device for storing the information acquired by the device information acquiring unit;
Based on the information stored in the device specifying information storage unit, the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is the monitoring device and the monitoring server. Device information discriminating means for discriminating which of the information should be stored ,
Monitoring equipment. The device information determination unit, the device identification information based on the storage means is stored information, information obtained by the device information acquisition means, storage by any one of said monitoring device and the monitoring server you determine whether the information should be,
A monitoring device as claimed in 請 Motomeko 1. A monitoring system comprising: a monitoring device; and a monitoring server connected to the monitoring device via a telecommunication network,
The monitoring device
Equipment information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the equipment by monitoring the equipment;
Of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, device storage information storage means for storing information to be stored by the monitoring device;
Among the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, server storage information transmission means for transmitting information to be stored by the monitoring server connected to the monitoring device to the monitoring server;
A transmission request receiving means for receiving a transmission request for specific information of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means from the terminal device;
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is information to be stored by the monitoring device, the specific information is acquired from the device storage information storage unit Specific information acquisition means to
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving means is information to be stored by the monitoring server, the transmission request for the specific information is transmitted to the monitoring server. A transmission request transmission means to perform,
Specific information receiving means for receiving the specific information transmitted from the monitoring server in response to the transmission request by the transmission request transmitting means, from the monitoring server;
Specific information acquired by the specific information acquiring means, or specific information transmitted by the specific information receiving means, specific information transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal device;
A device specifying information storage unit for storing information for specifying a device for storing the information acquired by the device information acquiring unit;
Based on the information stored in the device specifying information storage unit, the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is the monitoring device and the monitoring server. Equipment information discriminating means for discriminating which of the information should be stored ,
The monitoring server is
Communication means for receiving information transmitted by the server storage information transmitting means;
And a that Symbol憶means to store the information received by the communication means,
It said communication means receives the transmission request transmitted by the transmission request transmission unit,
It said communication means, said transmission request particular response has been received, the information stored previously heard憶means, that sends to the monitoring device,
Monitoring system. A monitoring device acquires equipment information acquisition step for acquiring information related to the equipment by monitoring the equipment, and
Of the information acquired in the device information acquisition step, the monitoring device stores information to be stored by the monitoring device, device storage information storage step,
Among the information acquired in the device information acquisition step, the monitoring device transmits information to be stored by the monitoring server connected to the monitoring device to the server storage information transmission step,
The monitoring device receives a transmission request for specific information from the information acquired in the device information acquisition step from a terminal device, and a transmission request reception step.
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received in the transmission request reception step is information to be stored by the monitoring device, the monitoring device stores the information in the device storage information storage step. A specific information acquisition step of acquiring the specific information performed;
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received in the transmission request reception step is information to be stored by the monitoring server, the monitoring device sends the specific information to the monitoring server. A transmission request transmission step of transmitting a transmission request of:
A specific information receiving step for receiving, from the monitoring server, specific information transmitted from the monitoring server in response to the transmission request in the transmission request transmitting step;
A specific information transmitting step in which the monitoring device transmits the specific information acquired in the specific information acquiring step or the specific information received in the specific information receiving step to the terminal device;
A device specifying information storage step for storing information for specifying a device for storing the information acquired by the monitoring device in the device information acquiring step;
Based on the information stored in the device specifying information storage step, the monitoring device and the monitoring device and the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received in the transmission request receiving step are A device information discriminating step for discriminating which of the servers is information to be stored .
Monitoring method. A computer provided in the monitoring device,
Equipment information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the equipment by monitoring the equipment;
Among the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, device storage information storage means for storing information to be stored by the monitoring device,
Among the information acquired by the device information acquisition means, server storage information transmission means for transmitting information to be stored by the monitoring server connected to the monitoring device to the monitoring server,
A transmission request receiving means for receiving a transmission request for specific information of the information acquired by the device information acquisition means from the terminal device;
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is information to be stored by the monitoring device, the specific information is acquired from the device storage information storage unit Specific information acquisition means,
When the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving means is information to be stored by the monitoring server, the transmission request for the specific information is transmitted to the monitoring server. A transmission request transmission means,
Specific information receiving means for receiving specific information transmitted from the monitoring server in response to a transmission request by the transmission request transmitting means, from the monitoring server;
Specific information acquired by the specific information acquiring means, or specific information transmitted by the specific information receiving means, specific information transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal device,
Device specifying information storage means for storing information for specifying a device for storing information acquired by the device information acquiring means;
Based on the information stored in the device specifying information storage unit, the specific information requested to be transmitted by the transmission request received by the transmission request receiving unit is the monitoring device and the monitoring server. Functioning as device information discriminating means for discriminating which information is to be stored .
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